New ora green tip orange birdsnest...

[luckylepgw]

Got this little fella from my LFS 3 days ago.

He seems to be happy, but I'm a novice when it comes to sps...

Here is a min long video of flow ( i believe i am a little under right now)



I will be adjusting the tanks flow once the mail comes Today with new powerhead [emoji16] (2nd dc controllable, moving on up a piece at a time) so how much flow is to much?

I am running an ic loop system, 2 1050 powerheads in a 30 gal breeder.

Should i be shooting for 30gal×35=1050gph?

Or bump it up a notch ?

 

[Big G]

Bump

 

[ludnix]

If the polyps are getting pushed around more than they can handle and they close up for extended periods of time it's too much flow. I usually place my hand in front of the coral, if I can feel the flow it's usually too much, but at the same time I still try to keep it so it looks like it's moving significant water past the corals.

 

[LilElroyJetson]

With flow you can usually go as strong as you desire as long as a coral isn’t getting directly blasted and without causing any stirring up of the sand (if you have any). My flow alternates randomly so during certain periods of the day it may be low but as high as 60x per hour at other times, but even at max flow the polyps on my SPS move around quite a bit but never retract. As long as they aren’t getting directly blasted and polyps aren’t retracting (usually obvious that the flow is the issue if its only on the side of the coral the current is hitting it strongly that the polyps are retracting, that way you know something else isn’t causing polyps to retract), you’re probably good. Remember to light acclimate it if you plan on having its final place sit in a high intensity area in the tank (typically high directly beneath lighting) so you don’t cause light shock which can cause RTN.

 

[Wiskey]

I've found that BN frags don't care as much. If the flow is higher then they will tend to grow tighter and if something with the flow fails or changes then the interior tends to die, which can kill all of it at times.

I've had birdsnest grow from a frag to volleyball size then die off out of the blue except for tips. They grow back into another huge colony. Right now one huge piece of live rock is actually an old BN that did just this. The tips of it are still alive and growing.

Here you can see my big ORA Green Pylop BN colonies on the left and right, behind the right one I have an ORA Purple Pylop, but it grew at the same pace as the green one so nobody ever really saw it except in macros:
2016-10 FTS by Wiskey2727, on Flickr

Whiskey

 

[luckylepgw]

With flow you can usually go as strong as you desire as long as a coral isn’t getting directly blasted and without causing any stirring up of the sand (if you have any). My flow alternates randomly so during certain periods of the day it may be low but as high as 60x per hour at other times, but even at max flow the polyps on my SPS move around quite a bit but never retract. As long as they aren’t getting directly blasted and polyps aren’t retracting (usually obvious that the flow is the issue if its only on the side of the coral the current is hitting it strongly that the polyps are retracting, that way you know something else isn’t causing polyps to retract), you’re probably good. Remember to light acclimate it if you plan on having its final place sit in a high intensity area in the tank (typically high directly beneath lighting) so you don’t cause light shock which can cause RTN.

Thanks for the info. Right now his spot is at about +/- 160 par. Probably on the lower side as my lights are not all the way up...

 

[luckylepgw]

I've found that BN frags don't care as much. If the flow is higher then they will tend to grow tighter and if something with the flow fails or changes then the interior tends to die, which can kill all of it at times.

I've had birdsnest grow from a frag to volleyball size then die off out of the blue except for tips. They grow back into another huge colony. Right now one huge piece of live rock is actually an old BN that did just this. The tips of it are still alive and growing.

Here you can see my big ORA Green Pylop BN colonies on the left and right, behind the right one I have an ORA Purple Pylop, but it grew at the same pace as the green one so nobody ever really saw it except in macros:
2016-10 FTS by Wiskey2727, on Flickr

Whiskey

I have my pumps set to surge at different intervals so my flow will be erratic.

This is my current flow. Left powerhead across the top of the bn towards about the center of tank, right more towards the front of the tank.

Still some tweaking to work out, but this tank will not be the final home, picking up a 90 gal bowfront today. Upgrade!!! Super excited!!!

 

[mshonk]

Got this little fella from my LFS 3 days ago.

He seems to be happy, but I'm a novice when it comes to sps...

Here is a min long video of flow ( i believe i am a little under right now)



I will be adjusting the tanks flow once the mail comes Today with new powerhead [emoji16] (2nd dc controllable, moving on up a piece at a time) so how much flow is to much?

I am running an ic loop system, 2 1050 powerheads in a 30 gal breeder.

Should i be shooting for 30gal×35=1050gph?

Or bump it up a notch ?

I have an ORA Sour Apple Birdsnest getting loads of flow. When the pumps are at their highest the tank can see around 90 times turnover from powerheads alone.

 

[luckylepgw]

I have an ORA Sour Apple Birdsnest getting loads of flow. When the pumps are at their highest the tank can see around 90 times turnover from powerheads alone.

Good to know, but now i have to rethink things, going to be transferring everything into a 90 gal i picked up yesterday. That is if i can fix its leak today(overflow drain pipe), and hopefully it's the only one.